Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Free Porn!!!

Pretty grabby post title, eh? Only yelling “free beer!!!” at a Ren Faire will get you more attention (believe me, I’ve done it). Here’s Zack S. of Playing D&D With Porn Stars title description:
ZAK S - HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
I play D&D. Nearly everybody in my game is a stripper, or a porn star, or both*, so everybody's very busy, but when we do get to play, we like to do it up right. (*Yes, I'm serious.)

If you want subscribers to your game blog fast fast fast, then one great way to do it is to use the word “porn” in the title. Calling your blog page “Playing D&D with porn stars” seems to be a home run. So much more so than “Temple of Demogorgon.”

You want to not believe it at first. I mean, in geeky circles that would be your first reaction. You WANT to believe it, but some groups have trouble getting a female in the mix period, much less one who will play for pay. When I tell people that in the 90’s most or all of my 4-6 players per session were usually female (I only boinked a couple of them), they don’t believe that. Getting one girl there is hard enough for most gamer guys.

Personally I tend to believe it. I mean, I am an LA native and have lived in Venice Beach my entire life, and I have seen a lot of what this city has to offer. And although I have not had porn stars or strippers in my games (although I have had actors, screenwriters, and priests), some of the gals could have been if they wanted to. And actual sex has occurred before, during, and after games I’ve run. Yeah, some of that included me (but not always, unfortunately).

Girls in my games over the last 30 years have varied wildly in the looks department (I’d say the late 80’s was my heyday of great looking gals in my campaigns), but regardless of the physical description, I was usually pretty grateful to not just have a bunch of guys sitting around playing make-believe.

“Zak S,” a resident of Hollywood, has already achieved a fairly big following to his blog in a very short period of time. As of today, he has just over 40 followers. About as much as me. But I started my blog in January. Zak started his last month. I’m guessing most of the followers are awaiting tales of post game orgies and bukkakes, but those do not seem to be forthcoming. Zak actually puts together typical gaming posts, fairly lacking in the salacious details of the porny connection. Actually, they are very decent posts about the typical gaming subjects we gamers want to read/write about.

So. Zack S. knows some strippers and porn stars, and he gets them to play D&D. OK, we aren’t talking dolled-up blond airheads here, such as big names like Jenna Jameson and Katie Morgan. The girls Zack shows some pics of are more tattooed goth/rocker chick than glamour-puss. The seem very much like girls I know in LA, except in my case I would know them more for the folk music and hippy scenes (hey man, there are demonstrative chicks in those scenes like you would not believe) than from strip bars. But most of those girls don’t have a lot of interest in gaming unless their boyfriends get them into it.

So how does Zack do it? Well, that is probably a tale we would like to hear more about. It just so happens he isn’t up front with that information, much less where we can find out more about the girls he puts up pics of (they seem to have twitter and facebook accounts, but that doesn’t necessarily tell me where I can see them “work”).

Maybe Grognardia James needs to seek out an interview? Zack isn’t exactly the old school interview James wants, but what the hell, Zack probably has a tale or two to tell. Who cares if it doesn’t involve Gygax?

15 comments:

  1. Should point out that Zak was part of the community before he started the blog, so it's not like he just busted on in with a clever title. Though it is a clever title. :)

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  2. Yeah, Zak was already awesome before I knew anything about the interesting company he keeps.

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  3. Actually, I always thought "Temple of Demogorgon" was a pretty catchy title...
    ; )

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  4. That gaming group probably seeks out encounters with purple worms. "Uh...now on a natural 20 my character is swallowed whole or I swallow the worm whole? I always get confused!?!?!"
    I know low-brow and crass. I just couldn't resist.

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  5. Forgetting about the salacious aspects of his blog, he has some of the best examples of how to do great old-school gaming! His last set of posts, for example, about how he built a simple, cool, meaningful dungeon was awesome (the dungeon made out of stone medusified monsters).

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  6. I checked out his blog on the recommendation of another fellow blogger and must say that I have been very impressed.

    Aside from his 'living the dream' of a great many of his fellow gamers, Zak's ideas are creative, insightful and he delivers them with a sense of humor and intelligence that makes his posts highly enjoyable reads.

    I too have been very lucky in that the vast majority of my campaigns over the last 30+ years have included female players. As I stated in a recent post on my own blog, any sort of diversity that goes beyond the 'standard demographic' of what most people think of when they think of gamers is a good thing. It adds new perspectives and ideas that we probably don't see everyday.

    Kudos to Zak on his blog and keeping it going man!

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  7. Jayson: Well, I was playing as a teen and had girlfriends. One during high school lived in Ventura (about an hour north of LA), and on some weekends I would drive up with some friends to play at her place. Those weren't always overnighters for me, so, ya know, sneaking upstairs or into the loo for several minutes to "talk about her character." - of course she was with me, so how much character could she have nyuk nyuk.

    My best sex around games stories happened more often to other people. I had a friend in the late 80's who, during a game we were playing at some UCLA students dorm, picked up on a chick who was couch surfing during the game, they flirted for two hours in character, then went upstairs to "talk about their characters" mid-game like I did a a teen. Unfortunatly, the two dudes with the dorm were hot for the chick, and ended up in their jealousy kicking the bedroom door down beyond which they were by then bare ass naked (she actually kept her boots on, because she thought it was what her character would do). That no real violence went down was a miracle. And by the way, she was smoken' hot, so I guess worth all the fuss.

    I didn't actually get to finish the game. My buddy didn't "finish" either before the storm troopers came in. Ha ha, I don't think we saw her again after that day (and the two dudes threw her out that night).

    Man, I should blog about this shit.

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  8. Barking: I should have mentioned that Zak's posts are very intellegent and thoughtful - but I kind of had porn chicks on my mind when I wrote the post.

    When I said "decent posts," I did mean they were good, and not that they lacked dirty deets.

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  9. @ Bruno: And here I thought that kind of thing only happened around sessions of Vampire the Masquerade.
    : )

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  10. JB: I said me and my girlfriend, not me and another dude.

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  11. Good gracious. Thanks for the anecdote! I agree that you could probably spin the dynamics involved into a blog post or three...

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  12. I enjoy reading Zak's blog because it is an interesting, well thought out read. Actually, the porn star aspect takes a backseat to the meat of a great blog on oldschool gaming.

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  13. AV: "the porn star aspect takes a backseat to the meat"

    Nice!

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  14. Oh, drat! That was an unintentional pun!
    I need more coffee before I go posting around.

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